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Submit your products to be considered for a 2018 sofi Awards between February 1 and 28, 2018.

The Specialty Food Association’s sofi™ Awards have been honoring the best in specialty food for 45+ years. Don’t miss your chance to have your product join a pantheon of fantastic specialty foods, and have your business experience the increased media and buyer attention that comes with a sofi.

sofi™ Award honorees are selected through a blind tasting process and are true innovators in their categories. The sofi Award brings with it extra exposure to thousands of food buyers from top names in supermarkets, specialty retailers, foodservice, distributors, as well as the press. Winning a sofi Award isn’t just another trophy for your bookshelf – it’s a doorway to invaluable business opportunities and global recognition.

Your products. Today’s tastemakers. One epic competition.

The 2018 sofi Awards entry period runs throughout February 2018.Enter Here
Interested in last year’s winners? See them here.

What Winners say about the sofi Awards

Since we won, our retail store footprint increased 740% in major markets with a 1200% increase in online sales.

- Reuben Canada, Jin+Ja, 2013 Winner

We had many companies seek us out specifically because of the Sofi award. It also put us on Oprah's radar and this product was chosen for the November O-List and published in O, The Oprah magazine.

- Chris White, Mount Mansfield Maple Products, 2017 Winner

Recognition of our creativity, dedication to the industry and hard work to keep the consumer engaged. Winning a sofi is the highest reward you can receive and it validates everything you do every day.

- Paolo Volpati-Kedra, BC Gourmet USA, Inc., 2017 Winner

We have tripled our sales since winning the sofi Award and have gotten appointments with many new buyers.

- Riccardo Felicetti, Pastificio Felicetti, 2016 Finalist

The positive exposure is tremendous. It’s an honor to be chosen and the SOFI AWARD can offer instant credibility among buyers and peers.

– Jeff Flathau, Flathau's Fine Foods, 2017 Winner

What Buyers say about the sofi Awards

People who win this award really deserve it based on having the best product and best quality and best ingredients and it is really something they’ve earned.

– Margaret Furniss, Caviar & Bananas

We look to sofi Winners and Finalists because we know that they represent only the highest caliber of products.

– Alison Kunetka, Food Development, Williams-Sonoma

When evaluating new specialty foods to add to our tasting rooms, sofi Winners start at the top of the list—they are consistently in the top 10% of our bestselling specialty food items.